TELEGRAM TO V. I. MEZHLAUK

Published:First published on January 20, 1929, inKrasnaya ZvezdaNo. 17.

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Mezhlauk,Deputy People’s Commissar for Military AffairsKharkov

Reportregularly twice weekly in code what you are
doing to liberate the Donets Basin. I fear your energy is
already flagging, and yet it is absolutely essential that
Kharkov strain every effort in order quickly and resolutely
to finish the job.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars